We welcome everyone to come and participate in the dialogue.

Open Artist Roundtable
"Video art in the age of the internet"
Thursday September 6, 2007, 8:00-9:30pm

Broadcasting LIVE on http://www.perpetualartmachine.com

The [PAM] founders will be hosting an open roundtable discussion on September 6th to analyze the current state and future of the medium of video art and the emergence of new artistic communities that question the authority and connoisseurship of traditional systems of 20th century art.

2007 Almanac of Political Art is ready to download at
http://www.reunionprojects.org.uk

Editor at large: Sophie Hope

Guest Editors: Leigh French, Adam Jeanes and Simona Nastac

Production Team: Valentina Gottardi, Ann Harezlak and Lucy Parker

If anyone is in Cornwall, UK on Saturday 1st September, you might like to drop into Tate St.Ives (www.tate.org.uk/stives)for a talk I'm giving on free software and open source as an area of contemporary art. The talk will provide a context for SUPERFLEX's FREE BEER project, which is currently being exhibited at Tate St Ives and within the Public Realm.

For those of you who couldn't make it across to Tate Modern in London for the Disrupting Narratives symposium on July 13th, the video archive is now live and can be accessed (with flash 8 or higher) at:

http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/webcasts/disrupting_narratives/defau...

Bulgarian artist Ivan Moudov shows his "Fragments" project in this exhibition, as seen at the Venice Biennale.

Lifting. Theft in Art

Peacock Visual Arts
21 Castle Street
Aberdeen AB11 5BQ

25 August - 29 September, 2007
Curated by Atopia Projects

Lifting is a show at Peacock Visual Arts exploring instances when art gets in the way of what is considered "legal". The show creates an archive of historical and contemporary works of radical appropriation- how theft and vandalism are "lifted" from criminal behaviour and into the art sphere. The results are humourous and poignant revelations on the absurdity of the legal and social ideas of ownership, originality and copyright.

THU AUGUST 23

6-8/ AICON GALLERY 206 W 25: From the Vault: Highlights from the Aicon Gallery & Herwitz Collection
6-11/ CHELSEA ART MUSEUM 556 W 22: Summer Soiree II - DJ Dance Party $20 (with open bar)
7:00/ WHITE BOX 525 W 26: Aleksei Stevens, Jen Stock The New Composers Series: Sonic Tapestries
7:00/ MCNALLY ROBINSON 52 Prince: Readings from New York Tyrant

THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY CONTINUES ITS 4th PRESENTING SEASON
5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, NYC 11101
7 train to Vernon/Jackson (1st stop in Queens - 5 minutes from Grand Central!)

Judy Rifka / Nostos / New Collages and Paintings
September 13 - October 20, 2007
Opening Reception - Saturday September 15, 5-7pm

Chocolate Factory Gallery Hours:

SATURDAY JULY 28
2-4, RIVIERA GALLERY 103 Metropolitan, Williamsburg / Rviera School presents “How To Draw a Tiger” workshop taught by Ted McGrath
4-6, RIVIERA GALLERY 103 Metropolitan, Williamsburg / Rviera School presents “Tigers, Trampolines, Teaspoons and the Letter T” workshop taught by Elizabeth Huey.

SUNDAY JULY 29

TUESDAY JULY 24
7-9, Soho/ RENWICK GALLERY 45 Renwick/ Screening: "The Brigid Berlin Story"
6-9, Midtown West/ HESKIN CONTEMPORARY 443 W 37/ Closing party for Julie Peppito’s "The Breath"
{recommended}
7:30, Midtown/ CHASHAMA 112 W 44/ Performance: Jonathan Zalben "Bialystok/Brooklyn"
8-11. Midtown/ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 11 W 53/ "Paper Rad Featuring Cory Arcangel" $10 {recommended}